Advocacies – Color My World

The Five Days That Changed The Way I See The World (Part 5)

July 29, 2026 cbholganza

The workshop’s greatest gift is that it taught me that stewardship is not reserved for environmentalists, scientists, or large landowners. It belongs to all of us. It begins in the choices we make each day. The trees we decide to plant. The plastics we choose not to use. The compost piles we create. The local farmers we support. The children we teach to love the earth. These may appear to be small acts. But nature has always taught us that small things, repeated faithfully, eventually transform entire landscapes.

The Five Days That Changed The Way I See The World (Part 4)

July 28, 2026 cbholganza

Toward the tail-end of my military career, the question I would ask myself was: “How do we build peace among our own divided people?” Now, as a small farmer, I have a new kind of war to address. And I ask: “How do we build peace with the earth?”

The Five Days That Changed The Way I See The World (Part 3)

July 27, 2026 cbholganza

As I walked back across Gran Verde Farm that afternoon, I found myself looking down more often than ever before. Not because I was tired, but because I had developed a new respect for what lay beneath my feet. I realized that the greatest lesson of the day wasn’t about compost, bees, worms, or insects. It was about relationships. Nature survives because everything contributes to something greater than itself.

The Five Days That Changed The Way I See The World (Part 2)

July 26, 2026 cbholganza

The workshop took us one step further. It challenged us to think differently. Like many people, I had always imagined permaculture to be simply another approach to farming – an organic way of growing vegetables or raising fruit trees. By the second day, I realized how incomplete that understanding had been.

The Five Days That Changed the Way I See The World (Part 1)

July 25, 2026 cbholganza

What began as a course on caring for the land gradually became a journey into understanding our relationship with nature, our communities, and even ourselves. It challenged many of my long-held assumptions, awakened a deeper appreciation for the quiet wisdom of the natural world, and reminded me that meaningful change often begins with the smallest, most ordinary choices.

Gran Verde Farm: From Cobras to Cacao

June 30, 2026 cbholganza

Our dream now is to keep developing the farm sustainably, to keep building cacao products we can be proud of, and to leave behind something the next generation can actually carry forward. If Gran Verde proves anything, it is that limited resources and a difficult beginning don’t have to be the end of the story – not if you’re willing to clear the land one patch at a time, and change course when the land asks you to.

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